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Sentence Examples Performing as a Jug band, the instrumentation was primitive as they experimented with tub bass, washboard, and kazoo. Jack Dempsey showed boxing skills and was not just another primitive slugger. A number of types of armor have been found with it, indicating that primitive as well as advanced titanosaurs possessed bony plates in the skin. However, their vertebral structure appears to have retained the primitive undulatory movement of the axial column. Triconodonts, monotremes and multituberculates have the primitive condylar arrangement for the radius. These features, however, are plesiomorphic, and shared by most eucosmodontids and primitive multituberculates. The kind of body art they practise would shame the youngsters who adorn themselves with primitive attempts at aping the tribals. In a transformation beyond my primitive understanding of quantum physics, the lump became a high performance bobsled. Their analysis also indicated, however, that the two snakes were not primitive ancestors, but advanced snakes similar to modern boas and pythons. However, his soldiers now have more primitive weapons, such as blunderbusses, muskets, swords, and repeating crossbows. I believe that certain aspects of other cultures are primitive and uncivilized. If the distinction were primitive and unanalyzable, this might be the only way to explain it. Classed as a primitive breed, they bear little resemblance to more common types of sheep with thick white fleeces. The navicular and cuboid bones of the ankle are not fused, a primitive condition that separates tylopods from the third suborder the Ruminantia. Pleuropulmonary blastoma is a rare, primitive primary neoplasm of the thorax in young children. This experience led to early experiments with a wooden bread board, nails and some wire, creating a primitive monochord. In the forest, the blind prince made a primitive monochord and began to wander from village to village singing for money. Filled with an explosive combination of saltpeter and black powder, these were the primitive ancestors of rockets. His program was an aircraft hangar, filled with almost every variety of primitive aircraft, from a turboprop trainer to a hang glider. By the start of the 1930s, the old primitive concept of statism, dominant throughout the monarchist age in Europe, began to reemerge. Show More Sentences Neruda is master of a living world in turmoil, and his expression is at times scarcely more than a sibylline stammer, a primitive muttering. Its primitive racquets and feather shuttlecocks were soon rendered obsolete by the discovery of celluloid. There were two doors, both seemingly exiting to the outside, and two windows that were covered on the inside by primitive wooden shutters. We suggest that primitive magmas ascending from the mantle are normally trapped in magma chamber complexes situated at or near the Moho. The work establishes the bridge between modernism and post-modernism utilizing primitive oral techniques. The cells lying between the primitive endoderm and the polar trophectoderm comprise the embryonic ectoderm or epiblast. A vast number of them are primitive tribalists at best and racists at worst. Several of the drawings were laced together with shoestrings in primitive book form. The platypus is considered a primitive mammal, yet its bill appears to be highly advanced. Down the hall are turtle shells bearing primitive scratchings that later evolved into the elegant calligraphy you'll find one floor up. The primitive man initially used berries, nuts, seeds, feathers, perforated stones, teeth, and shells as ornaments. Let's begin pondering briefly a primitive barter economy where goods are traded for goods. The primitive but often inspired toons remind us that hip-hop has enjoyed a stronger visual identity than other genres. Despite all the medical advances and cool new colours, setting broken bones is still a pretty primitive process. Reptiles are cold blooded scaly creatures like snakes, lizards, crocodiles and turtles, who are all descendants of the primitive reptile. Both men are time-servers who, at a single nod from the conqueror, will sink into primitive obscurity. Furthermore, he holds that certain primitive emotions influence action tendencies without the mediation of propositions or concepts. The wings of bats and insects are therefore analogous because they both function for flight, but are derived from different primitive structures. Gjuve basalts are generally more primitive and have a greater range of major element compositions than the Morgedal basalts. His exploits follow a long line of expeditions trying to prove the seaworthiness of primitive boats. Show More Sentences They would act as messengers and help organize or establish the central government to calm the barbaric behavior of these primitive races. Many believed that slavery was a barbaric and primitive institution and that those who condoned it were, therefore, primitive and barbaric. He rejects empiricism, reason and logic for a primitive bloodlust that can only be described as barbaric. The death of any living creature to satisfy an urge based in a primitive and barbaric past is morally wrong. The view of the cross as the sacrifice for the sins of the world is a barbarian idea based on primitive concepts of God and must be dismissed. Thus, relative to the primitive therian condition, marsupials have a distinctive, derived pattern of reduced dental replacement. These basal forms evolved through the primitive pelycosaur stage, to the therapsids or mammal-like reptiles, and finally the mammals themselves. Over the following decades, the anthropologist described the theistic beliefs of primitive cultures around the world in encyclopedic detail. The egg-laying platypus and its cousin, the anteater, along with marsupials, make up the most primitive group of living mammals. The singing voice, especially the tenor voice, recorded remarkably well with this primitive process. The basiventrals form distinct elements that articulate with the pleural ribs in primitive teleosts, and thus act as parapophyses. An exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art took the word primitive with a grain of salt, as indicated by the scare quotes around it in the title. The mammal-like reptile, that also came from the primitive reptile, was the ancestor of all mammals. The equipment used then seems primitive compared to the technology at his disposal now. The womanly power revered in primitive societies was within me, as I teased my hair and pulled up the starched petticoats of the late fifties. Taylor endured primitive living conditions and long marches between an endless series of makeshift camps. Communication, except the more primitive kinds and the printed word were lost as survivors slipped backward toward savagery. But before any life existed, there must have been an energy source that could be tapped by primitive life forms. The idea of marriage is almost as old as the hills and was performed even in the most primitive of human societies and cultures. Yet, here he was enduring heat, bugs and primitive conditions and all the while utilizing the manipulative skills of a Machiavelli. Show More Sentences Around the turn of the century, composers began to experiment with atonality, dissonance and primitive rhythms. Histopathology revealed a malignant neoplasm with areas of astrocytic and primitive neuroectodermal components. The morphology of its lophodont molars indicates that Karagalax is a tapiromorph, and it is here included in the primitive family Isectolophidae. The art forms that emerged in the early period of civilisation are primitive and catered to a people who had no alternative. The Atdabanian epoch saw the emergence of the calcareous shelled Nisusiidae, the earliest and most primitive of the articulate brachiopods. His house was a simple, fairly primitive home, built from logs like an odd sort of mix between a tree house and a log cabin. The primitive living conditions of people living in the countryside are not very different from what they were in the forties. These primitive microorganisms, members of the archaebacterial kingdom, may be very similar to the earliest life forms on Earth. They do not represent primitive vestiges of an early stage in the linear progress of life. The word scape is defined as an aphetic form of the common word escape, meaning a primitive usage with a missing first vowel or syllable. I've stopped in Greenland at least 100 times over the last 25 years, and I'm still dazzled by the stark, primitive beauty of the place. Until then I'll revel in the primitive delight of having too much of a good thing. It was within the lepromatous skin nodules using primitive staining techniques that he saw masses of rodshaped bodies. Europe had retrogressed almost to a primitive way of life, wherein learning was preserved largely in the monasteries. It takes a long series of lemmas to show how powerful the primitive recursive functions are. Thomas and his fellow engines' voices and endearingly primitive animation remain the same as in the much-loved television series. While coming home from fishing one night, the narrator was suddenly overwhelmed by a sense of rank, primitive animality, a feeling of wildness. In other sites, liposarcoma is thought to be derived from residual rests of primitive mesenchymal tissue. Like anchovies and herrings, they are small, primitive fish belonging to the group known as clupeoids. A tubular testis, which appears to be anastomosing, characterizes the primitive sarcopterygian and the coelacanth. Show More Sentences He built a primitive zoetrope at the age of 12, which played a minute-long cartoon. Moreover, primitive BM stem cells, with in vitro long-term repopulating potential, display a very low accumulation of certain substances. The repellent nature of this image evokes the almost primitive disgust that Nixon was able to elicit from his liberal enemies. The anti-Darwin movement, at least in its popular form, began in the primitive whoops and hollers of young-earthers and seven-day literalists. First, there are various pieces of evidence about monkeys being eaten in the remote past or in primitive cultures in more recent times. This land bridge allowed primitive mammals to colonize South America from the North. To them, Sonny was an anachronism, a relic from a primitive time when the locomotive was technology's cutting edge. Whether it was a labyrinthodont amphibian or a primitive reptile has been much disputed. They were primitive small cylinders, not hooked up to water pipes or drains, with no spin dryers or wringers. Let her go abroad and tell the world how primitive is the structure of our society. This more primitive expression of womanhood is fused with the typically reclining posture of renaissance figures, such as Michelangelo's Dawn. Alejandro Ferretis plays a middle-aged painter who has retired to a secluded and primitive village to commit suicide. Thought to be Anglo-Saxon, this could have been a primitive pottery kiln or a malting oven, used in beer making. The most primitive human stone tool sites date back 2.6 million years to when people were flaking the rock to create a razor-like edge. Angles, Saxons, Jutes, and Frisians who settled in England were still imbued with the traditional freedom of primitive German society. Seeds of diploid wheats and primitive tetraploid wheats were obtained from Dr CI Kling. The cells were surrounded by a basal lamina and joined by primitive junctions. The new work shows how a well-specified bath affects the qubits in a crystal which behaves as a very primitive quantum computer. In the primitive church at Rome and in the Eastern Church, the kiss of peace was offered after the first part of the Mass and before the Eucharistic Prayer. Our medicine has so dramatically improved since the primitive era so well described by Candice Millard's lively book. Show More Sentences The mountain passes are high and demanding, the climate gives extremes of weather conditions, the infrastructure is primitive and the hidden wastelands are boundless. Over thousands of years, the accuracy of maps didn't improve significantly faster than the accuracy of primitive timepieces such as the sundial or water clock. The Specimens below are polished to a high luster on one side to allow viewing of the beautiful crystalline structure characteristic of this rare primitive achondrite! Many primitive societies attach existential weight to the names of things. At the turn of the century, zoos displaying so-called primitive cultures were used to drum up public support for colonialism. Of course, there are lots of other minor arguments on the issue, but when all is said and done, it all comes back to the issue of progressive cultures vs. primitive cultures. It has a lot of folk beliefs and fairly primitive religion mixed in. They belonged to a primitive group of birds known as ratites. That is why we profess a spiritual kinship with primitive and archaic art. It is a blue-green alga, a primitive plant of the same class as seaweeds or the green slime seen on rocks and jetties when uncovered by the sea at low tide. Exodermis with Casparian bands was found in roots of hydrophytic, mesophytic and xerophytic species and in members of primitive as well as advanced families. Naturally, being hopped up like jackrabbits at Easter, these desperate dudes go seeking the sexy savages, hoping to finally know the touch of a woman, primitive or not. We were careful with how we dealt with suspected patients and what we did with our primitive coverings, it was steamy. The word primitive does not do justice to the elemental nature of dining in one of the great barbecue parlors of this region. Also of note are the large landing lights built into the leading edge of the top wing which were big improvements for operating at night from primitive fields. The nineteenth century notions of the evolution of religion from primitive animism to polytheism to monotheism have been falsified in tribe after tribe all over the world. The Leyden jar is a primitive capacitor, first used for containing electrical spirits and demons by Rabbi Levi of Prague in the sixteenth century. But such primitive and fanciful ideas are just the skin on top of hot milk. Through the glassy outer layer a primitive life form can be seen. Although the small shop houses a grinder-buffer, drill, bench sander and electric saw, most of the tools are primitive looking hammers, mallets and anvils. Show More Sentences Most often, these early immigrants would live together in crowded rooming houses or primitive hostels in urban centers of the industrial northeastern United States. But in coelacanths, lungfishes and some primitive sharks, the transformation of notochord into a segmented bony vertebral column does not take place. In the early spring of 1762 Hazen joined the pioneers with a party of settlers who built a primitive sawmill and gristmill and constructed rude shelters. In Paris Cafe society we may be viewed as petty tyrants but, say what you will, at least we are not like them, the primitive Yiddish schnorrers in black robes and fur hats. The current ongoing process, of marketisation, assessment and so on, in Britain's higher education institutions is then one of enclosure and primitive accumulation. He was repelled by the obscurity of its content and the barbarous style of the rather primitive version made by half-educated missionaries in the second century. This is the most general and primitive form of a complex of the nucleus with basal bodies and associated flagella, microtubular tissues and fibers. This implies that individual primitive magmas are more likely to represent the composition of their individual mantle sources than more fractionated basalts. Stage coach travel was rugged and slow, with long distances being an arduous and tiring journey over primitive roads, subject to delay and often impassible in muddy weather. The findings suggest that damage to the right mesial prefrontal cortex causes abnormal hoarding behavior by releasing the primitive hoarding urge from its normal restraints. Middleton described it as failure of primitive mesoblasts to mature. In 1888 he contributed articles on taboo and totemism to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, which laid the foundation for his work on primitive religion. We know also that a primitive marrow stem cell, or blood vessel wall cells mobilised from marrow, are able to repair heart muscle after damage from infarction. It also may relate to our still primitive understanding of the natural history of Ebola virus infection. We have to regard this relation as primitive or unanalysable. That is, except for a handful of more primitive serpents such as boas and pythons, whose vestigial femurs protrude from their scaly underbellies like stunted pincers. If you were a nut so primitive as to think that decapitating a helpless man would strengthen you, what might you think if that bodiless head were to start speaking? Well-represented dentitions and skulls are also known for some of the earliest and most primitive multituberculates, from the Late Jurassic of Portugal. The most primitive ruanas are made from undyed wool in shades of brown. It is burdensome if the twenty-first century primitive artist is supposed to have escaped the march of history to help the rest of us treasure some mythical past. Show More Sentences For I had always held that revenge was a motive alien to modem, civilized man, a primitive drive, a blood-lust that human nature had sloughed off. As insects go, thysanurans are about as primitive as an arthropod can get and still be considered an insect. They conjured a world of primitive magic in which evil spirits could not be given their true names for fear of increasing their power. Thus, by analogy, philosophical propositions will involve primitive terms, to be arrived at, undoubtably, by a kind of conceptual analysis. Mr. Andrews... also finds three primitive laws or fundamental principles of universology, which he calls Unism, Duism, and Trinism. These compounds are very useful for lichen identification, and have had economic importance as dyes such as cudbear or primitive antibiotics. Lizards and snakes share a movable quadrate bone, distinguishing them from the sphenodonts, which have more primitive and solid diapsid skulls. Some primitive snakes are known to have possessed hindlimbs, but their pelvic bones lacked a direct connection to the vertebrae. This primitive animal has black and white pandalike patterns in its thick fur and is about the size of a medium dog. Gymnovaries are the primitive condition found in lungfish, sturgeon, and bowfin. Juvenile bichirs have external gills, a very primitive feature that they share with larval amphibians. The researchers say the modern analogue for that first primitive oxygen-dependent life form on Earth is still with us. Other major events include the appearance of the earliest lizards, and the evolution of therian mammals, including primitive placentals. Some of the early, primitive dinosaurs also became extinct, but more adaptive ones survived to evolve into the Jurassic. These primitive walruses had much shorter canines and lived on a fish diet rather than a specialized mollusk diet like the modern walrus. His travels on the primitive roads were especially difficult, as passengers in the rumble seat of his Plymouth coupe learned. These primitive forms were later elaborated with dialogue and dramatic action. In 1963 Susan created the popular Totem, an abstract pattern based in primitive forms coupled with a cylindrical shape. Arguably, he was the primitive undebated full king of Ireland and also the only Gaelic one. The author describes and illustrates the more primitive and inexpensive technologies of raku, sagger, sawdust, pit, and above-ground firing. Show More Sentences Even the most primitive form of smoking requires tools of some sort to perform. Endothermic bony fishes are all in the suborder Scombroidei and include the butterfly mackerel, a species of primitive mackerel. In amphibians and some primitive bony fishes, the larvae bear external gills, branching off from the gill arches. The bony fish have three pairs of arches, cartilaginous fish have five to seven pairs, while the primitive jawless fish have seven. Her favorite finds are Limoges china, white ironstone china, blue-and-white Transferware and Lustreware in primitive pink designs. In many vertebrates, the neurenteric canal connects the medullary tube and the primitive intestine. Another route proposed is that, either on foot or using primitive boats, they migrated down the Pacific coast to South America. The first stone walls were constructed by farmers and primitive people by piling loose field stones into a dry stone wall. The problem lay in forming a primitive proposition which encompassed this and would act as the basis for all of logic. And that suggests a way in which the human mind may be located within nature, namely, as a development of more primitive semeiotic capacities. He thus came to the conclusion that psychoanalytic theories had more in common with primitive myths than with genuine science. Such a link with primitive people importantly antedates his anthropological studies at Harvard. Bell's own home used a primitive form of air conditioning, in which fans blew currents of air across great blocks of ice. She said education and political activity was almost a taboo the women in a society that set store by primitive traditions. Starving refugees, disorganised stragglers, and the sick and wounded clogged the primitive roads and tracks leading to India. The road facilities going to Cebu s tourism sites like Camotes, Malapascua and Bantayan as primitive and far from being considered world-class. He virtually created the Tudor consort and keyboard fantasia, having only the most primitive models to follow. This has led some to believe that the more sophisticated shanties of later years developed from the more primitive chants. Conditions at the farmhouse were primitive but the natural history and the challenge of improving the place appealed to Orwell. Street-smart Cyrus Gant managed to escape, crashing to the surface of a nearby moon terraformed by the Kresh and inhabited by primitive humans. Show More Sentences There was a bright-red plastic baby-bath, a car tyre, a rusty mangle, and something that looked like a primitive version of a washing machine. The unique adaptations for the snake skull for ingesting large prey in more primitive macrostomatan snakes have been well documented. While the Babylonians used primitive seed drills around 1500 BCE, the invention never reached Europe. For the benefit of our younger readers, a cassette player was a primitive audio device popular in the late 20th century. This is just what we find to be the case, for the catamenia have in their nature an affinity to the primitive matter. He investigated the early seat belts whose primitive designs were implicated in these injuries and deaths. Females also have a joint urinary and genital tract, a characteristic shared with primitive mammals such as the monotremes of Australia. Between d 11 and 17 the conceptus elongates to 25 cm, the primitive streak in the embryonic disc appears, and somites appear soon thereafter. According to Rolt, Stephenson managed to solve the problem caused by the weight of the engine on the primitive rails. The first vertebrates appeared in the form of primitive fish, which greatly diversified in the Silurian and Devonian Periods. It is the only native gymnosperm in the region, and like all Cycas species exhibits primitive features reminiscent of early spermatophytes. Great forests of primitive plants covered the continents, many of which formed the coal beds of Europe and eastern North America. In one particularly memorable scene a volcano erupts just as primitive Balinese sit around in a circle chanting, an imitation of the kecak dance. This agrees well with the more primitive structural organization of the jyngine brain. Sediments from the crater indicate that the impactor must have been a carbonaceous chondrite, an especially primitive meteorite. This primitive arrangement of chondrocranium and gill arches forms the basis of the skull in all jawed vertebrates. He publishes photos by workers of primitive and filthy dorms with squat toilets. Helmeted firefighters used primitive methods to fight the inferno, including metal squirters and leather buckets. Yen found that male copepods, pinhead-size marine crustaceans with only primitive light sensors, chug along the tiny wakes left by females. Clark was faced with the problem of determining which hemipenial type constituted the primitive condition. Show More Sentences One group thinks zoos are a relic of a primitive past and should be closed, or at least turned into nature preserves. The primitive Esquires were no other than what the Latins called Equisons, who had the care and intendance of the equerries, or stables only. Neuroendocrine tumors would not be expected to occur in tissue derived from the primitive stomodeum. The cells of the primitive embryoblast differentiate into two layers, the epiblast and the hypoblast. Two sectors of historic but primitive gold mining, the Devis and Michel pits, were chosen as the first drilling targets. By designing the primitive binary code, at least one colluder can be captured out of up to c colluders. The foolish system of ariolation is much practised by the primitive Papuas, previously to entering into any undertaking. It wasn't the first feathered dinosaur discovered, but it was the first tyrannosaur ever found with primitive feathers. As a matter of fact, the methods of primitive accumulation are anything but idyllic. He thinks he has invariably noticed, that amongst primitive nations, zoolatry has been more in vogue than antholatry. The thrips are the first or most primitive order to harbor allantonematid nematodes, which are more common in the higher Coleoptera and Diptera. This is in marked contrast to other more primitive primates, where the agonic mode dominates social behaviour. It represents or personifies certain instinctive data of the dark, primitive psyche, the real but invisible roots of consciousness. Theories to explain the apparent egalitarianism have arisen, notably the Marxist concept of primitive communism. More primitive mammals, such as the echidna, can only hiss, as sound is achieved solely through exhaling through a partially closed larynx. Both marine and continental faunas were essentially modern, although continental faunas were a bit more primitive than today. The beginning of early human evolution reaches back to the earliest innovations of primitive technology and tool culture. It is therefore plausible to suggest that violence, including primitive warfare, would have transpired between the two human species. The Edict, divided in 388 chapters, was primitive in comparison to other Germanic legislation of the time. As against society he puts forward a sort of primitive Communism, of which the certain fruits are Justice and a happy life. Show More Sentences Moreover, Rousseau does not believe that it is possible or desirable to go back to a primitive state. Gradually, organizations of gas and dust merged to form the first primitive galaxies. In the primitive times, the Indians lived on fruits and wore clothes made of animal skin, just like the Greeks. Megasthenes tries to argue that Dionysus was able to conquer India, because before his invasion, India was a primitive rural society. Division of words. Words are primitive or radical, and derivative or compound. Every concept admitted in geometry is either a primitive concept, or else is obtained by a definition in terms of the primitive concepts. Proving successful at hunting, the group caught 26 Arctic foxes in primitive traps, as well as killing a number of polar bears. A few primitive breeds of sheep retain some of the characteristics of their wild cousins, such as short tails. A primitive corn was being grown in southern Mexico, Central America, and northern South America 7,000 years ago. Wycliffe also believed that it was necessary to return to the primitive state of the New Testament in order to truly reform the Church. This practice takes the constellation to be primitive rather than the words themselves. Most historical records and various primitive tribal practices indicate that the death penalty was a part of their justice system. One must concede the need for primitive notions, or undefined terms or concepts, in any study. Other axiom schemas involving the same or different sets of primitive connectives can be alternatively constructed. Members had to travel to Westminster over a primitive road system, a real problem for those who represented more distant constituencies. Resentment at this scheme, the mechanical simplicity of the device and the primitive state of patent law, made infringement inevitable. A bell pit is a primitive method of mining coal, iron ore or other minerals where the coal or ore lies near the surface. The important fossil fuel coal consists of the remains of primitive plants, including ferns. This implies that the fields must be either of primitive types or of class types that are themselves serializable. The essay is governed by a kind of primitive historicism that single-mindedly and even simple-mindedly strives to identify Hamlet with James. Show More Sentences Armstrong flew the LEM while aldrin manned the primitive flight computer. In fact, the primitive maritime navigation of the time relied on the stars and the curvature of the spherical Earth. The skeletal anatomy combines primitive features known from australopithecines with features known from early hominins. The new species possesses a combination of primitive and derived features that helps to fill wide morphological and temporal gaps in early mesoeucrocodylian history. All of these tend to produce something of a hiccough effect we know as hocket and which Reese suggests has a long history dating back to primitive instruments. Magnolias are some of the most primitive of our flowering trees, and fossils dating back millennia prove that they have had little need to evolve. The intent was to emulate the customs of the primitive apostolic church. For centuries Ethiopian Christianism has excited the curiosity of western scholars who are tempted to see in it the survival of an exotic form of primitive Christianism. There can be little doubt that the corrobory is the medium through which the delights of poetry are enjoyed, in a limited degree, even by the primitive savages of New Holland. The Russians lacked a quartermaster's department capable of keeping armies operating in Central Europe properly supplied over the primitive mud roads of eastern Europe. For example, premaxillary teeth are present in the primitive polacanthid Gargoyleosaurus, the primitive nodosaurid Silvisaurus, and the primitive ankylosaurid Cedarpelta. Watchnights were further times of prayer and witness, late into the night, and modelled by Wesley on the vigils of feasts in the primitive church. At the time, guns were still rather primitive and cumbersome. These include the aardwolves of Africa, the aardvarks and the pangolins of Africa and Asia, and the numbats and echidnas, primitive egg-laying mammals of Australia. In this case one must also add as a primitive rule ex falso quodlibet. He thinks NWA 7325 could belong to a class of meteorites known as primitive achondrites, which contain chromium-rich pyroxene and are low in iron. Many primitive machines are coated with layers of rust, and some of the butterfly ballots are written in obscure languages such as Aramaic, Sanskrit, and Southern English. In the Early Miocene, about 22 million years ago, the many kinds of arboreally adapted primitive catarrhines from East Africa suggest a long history of prior diversification. Since in the primitive church the offices of presbyter and episkopos were identical, many Puritans held that this was the only form of government the church should have. The earliest hominin, of presumably primitive bipedalism, is considered to be either Sahelanthropus or Orrorin, both of which arose some 6 to 7 million years ago. Show More Sentences Examples of vestigial structures in humans include wisdom teeth, the coccyx, the vermiform appendix, and other behavioural vestiges such as goose bumps and primitive reflexes. The tectiforms reproduce in a remarkable manner the simple shelters, tents, and huts in use today among primitive and nomadic races in various parts of the world. They look almost primitive and remind me of the ancient Indian sage, Valmiki, who, in a state of deep meditation, gets covered over time by anthills. That afternoon we visited a REAL cave dweller, one of the last few remaining families who have eschewed brick-built houses in favour of more primitive abodes. The most optimistic estimates have Pioneer 10 hitting other solar systems like ours in a few billion years, The primitive craft will be our cosmic cave painting. Turtles lack any such holes and so are the only living anapsids, a group that includes fossils of the most primitive vertebrates capable of living entirely on land. Depreciative terms exist in historical terms such as mulatto, African slave, primitive culture, animist, African jungle, alongside scores of other terms. In 1894, marine biologist Walter Garstang suggested that the primitive ciliary band, which harbors neurons, evolved into the dorsal nerve cord of vertebrates. A sampling of topics turns up birth and death statements, colophon, letterforms or allographs, primitive codicology and palaeography, quire, scribal etiquette, and vignette. The irony of it all was that while Brucher accorded great value to these collected seeds, the Soviet authorities preferred Lysenko's ideology and his primitive Lamarckism. Due to the primitive and relatively stagnant state of agriculture throughout this period, the ratio of rural to urban population remained at a fixed equilibrium. A relatively small number of defenders in a fort impervious to primitive weaponry could hold out against high odds, the only constraint being the supply of ammunition. While in London, Moore extended his knowledge of primitive art and sculpture, studying the ethnographic collections at the Victoria and Albert Museum and the British Museum. Leats, feeders ponds and primitive hydroelectric technology, which formed part of the drainage system of the Cyfarthfa Ironworks, are also still in existence. Sturgeons retain several primitive characters among the bony fishes. Her fourteen dollhouses range in sophistication from a child-made primitive to an electrified manse set on a low table and peekable from all sides. The Marattiaceae are a primitive group of tropical ferns with large, fleshy rhizomes and are now thought to be a sibling taxon to the leptosporangiate ferns. The early primitive casting couch, focus groups, the role of finances. In this article, the author uses the four cardinal direction words and the fifth, the centrum, to present an outline of the primitive Chinese classification system. But, given the argument for its primitive nature just adduced, this would only be possible if the reductionist eschewed the univocality of predications of existence. Show More Sentences Lucy's larger colors at Hadar were, inOlson's view, the most primitive members of the robust australopithecine lineage, which he prefers to call Paranthropus. Multituberculates, an ancient lineage of primitive mammals that originated back in the Jurassic, also became extinct in the Oligocene, aside from the gondwanatheres. Mouse lemurs, said to be the most primitive primate, are found exclusively on the island of Madagascar and the Comoro Islands off the east coast of Africa. Aurornis xui, which lived in the late Jurassic, may be the most primitive avialan dinosaur known to date, and is one of the earliest avialans found to date. Understanding of the steam engine was in a very primitive state, for the science of thermodynamics would not be formalised for nearly another 100 years. From the Pennsylvanian subperiod of the Carboniferous period until well into the Permian, the most successful insects were primitive relatives of cockroaches. University of Tennessee researcher Kanwaljeet Anand disagrees, saying that younger fetuses still feel pain, but in a primitive part of the brain called the subcortex. Africa shared the supercontinent's relatively uniform fauna which was dominated by theropods, prosauropods and primitive ornithischians by the close of the Triassic period. The Seeds, formed in 1965, were a short-lived but cultishly memorable band that melded primitive rock rhythms with the free-love message of the flower power generation. Geochemists no longer believe that the primitive atmosphere contained the right gases, and biochemists doubt that the amino acids would have survived in a primeval ocean. Hominids started using primitive stone tools millions of years ago. The neopaganism of our time differs from its primitive form. The Ordovician was a time in Earth's history in which many of the biological classes still prevalent today evolved, such as primitive fish, cephalopods, and coral. This is partly because it is difficult to draw a line detailing when the primitive forms of creating a continuous source of light from fire can be termed a lamp. The kyphosids are today one of the most primitive percosid families. It is driven back upon the lower type of religious experience, which primitive man possessed when he worshiped the daimonic powers that seemed to rule his life. While modern birds have only one functional oviduct and lay one egg at a time, more primitive birds and dinosaurs had two oviducts, like crocodiles. A primitive concept is essential to the representation of the specialty. A defined concept is built from one or more primitive concepts and one or more relationships. Their four booklungs linked these hypochilids with primitive mygalomorphs. The conflict between capital and labor is therefore reduced to its primitive Manichean opposition and to forms of luddism that were never part of Gramsci's vision. Find more words! 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